Maya Angelou is Ev-er-y-thang!! I have loved her offerings, poetic and prosaic, since I read her first autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. I don't know which I prefer, but I do know that I am always hungry for more when I read her words. I was thinking about my close network of friends and family and realized that I am privileged to have such a strong close-knit circle. I am lucky that even when I feel heavy laden with sadness (thank you Donny Hathaway), I have a crew of folks that I can count on to be there for me in my darkest hours without fail. Like the words in the following poem "nobody can make it out here alone." Too often, we box ourselves into a corner by trying to pretend that we have everything under control. But no person is an island; we all could use someone to help us out once in awhile. This poem reminds us that we need others in order to thrive. You don't have to go it alone. The other side of this is that you should try to help someone out in need: be a blessing to someone's life today...
Alone
by Maya Angelou
Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And I don't believe I'm wrong
That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.
There are some millionaires
With money they can't use
Their wives run round like banshees
Their children sing the blues
They've got expensive doctors
To cure their hearts of stone.
But nobody
No, nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Now if you listen closely
I'll tell you what I know
Storm clouds are gathering
The wind is gonna blow
The race of man is suffering
And I can hear the moan,
'Cause nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Poem courtesy of http://www.poets.org/ Image courtesy of http://www.gpaulbishop.com
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